Assistant Judge Danilkina Natalya Vasilieva told the Human Rights Organization “Agora”, representing her interests , about pressure on her family, an open news agency reports. Vasilieva said that her husband since 2000 worked in the Criminal Investigation Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in Moscow, and resigned at his own free will in April 2010.

The investigation will check the involvement of the Governor of Khakassia Viktor Zimin in the trade in fragments of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, the representative of the Republican Investigative Committee Svetlana Pavina said on Wednesday. Journalists of the Khakassia news agency turned to law enforcement agencies with a request to conduct an audit to law enforcement agencies.

It is necessary to increase discipline in the units of the Federal Customs Service (FCS), and its employees need to be implemented not at the workplace. This was announced today at a meeting with the head of the FCS Andrei Belianinov by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, ITAR-TASS reports. “Of course, discipline in some departments is needed. It is necessary to raise it a little.

A group of European businessmen turned to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and expressed concern to the introduction of new rules for the stay of highly qualified foreign specialists in Russia. In their opinion, these rules significantly complicate the procedure for registering foreigners at the place of stay, and businessmen ask to cancel them.

The Khabarovsk Industrial District Court sentenced three former police officers for the commission of a number of crimes related to exceeding official powers, the use of violence, as well as fraud. It is reported by " Duta.ru.

Anji Makhachkala football club officially announced the signing of an employment agreement with the Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos. The contract is designed for 2.5 years. This scheme in the club is associated with the fact that the next championship of Russia will be transitional and will last a year and a half. According to the Brazilian media, the salary of a football player will be 4 million euros year plus additional bonuses.

The journalist of the British newspaper The Guardian Luke Harding decided to leave Russia next week. He stated this today in an interview with Echo of Moscow . Harding said that for the first time he was asked to leave the country by the curator from the Foreign Ministry after the war in Georgia.

Mashinostroitelnaya Plant OJSC (Elektrostal, Moscow Region, is a member of the fuel company Rosatom "TVel") on February 15 visited the delegation of the Japanese Corporation Toyota, led by Mr. Nampachi Hayasi. The purpose of the visit to the enterprise is to improve the methods of the production system Rosatom (PSR) based on the principles of Toyota Corporation. The delegation included representatives of the fuel company "TVEL" and OJSC "Concern" Rosenergoatom ".

The Moscow government intends to revise the Moscow Development General Plan, designed until 2025. This was reported by the newspaper " Vedomosti " with reference to two senior officials of the city hall. The recommendation to reconsider the general plan contains the report of the Moscow Control and Accounts on the quality and effectiveness of the program-targeted budgeting method in the capital in 2009-2010.

The Federation Council, without discussion, approved today the resolution “On the appointment of members of the Central Election Commission,” our correspondent Lev Fainberg reports. As a result of the secret ballot, four current members of the Central Election Commission were appointed to new terms: Elena Dubrovina, Nikolai Konkin, Nina Kulyasova and Siyabshakh Shapiev. Anton Lopatin, adviser to the chairman of the FNPR, has been appointed instead of Lyudmila Demyanchenko.

In 2011, were somewhat or completely dissatisfied 28% of Levada Center respondents with their education. In 1995 there were 40% of these people, in 2000 - 42%, in 2005 - 35%, in 2007 - 32%. On the contrary, 68% of participants in a recent opinion poll were satisfied with their education (54% in 1995, 55% in 2000, 62% in 2005, 56% in 2007).

In the Volgograd region, the court, on the basis of the prosecution claim, stopped access to the site of Sergei Mavrodi "MMM-2011". As reported on the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office, the system of uncontrolled attraction of investments of citizens proposed on the Mavrodi website has all the signs of a “financial pyramid”. Which site is not specified. Perhaps this is the blog of Sergey Mavrodi, in which he posts all the news about his new project.

On Wednesday, February 16, 2011, a lecture of Professor Rash Konstantin Sonin will take place at the Moscow Polytechnic Museum. The theme of his speeches will be “auctions”. The lecture is part of the cycle “Economics: just about the complex” organized by the Russian Economic School and the Lecture of the Museum. “This will be a lecture about ... what auctions are ... and where what auctions are held,” K. Sonin said on his blog . “Auctions are, on the one hand, a high theory.

Director Vasily Barkhatov was appointed Dmitry Medvedev member of the Public Chamber, the Kremlin press service reports. Barkhatov will take the place of Alexei Pimanov in the Public Chamber, who in January 2011 became a Senator from Tuva. Vasily Barkhatov is a famous Russian register, winner of the Golden Mask Award for 2009 for the Opera of the Karamazov Brothers.

Over $ 100 million in VTB paper invested over 10 investors, including the Italian Generali, the sovereign fund of China, and TPG funds. Also, the Bank bought a Harvard University. This became known to the newspaper Vedomosti . VTB summed up the placement of 10% minus 2 shares of the bank, for which the government will receive 95.7 billion rubles ($ 3.3 billion). The price amounted to $ 6.25 for a depository receipt (2000 shares) and 9.1468 kopecks per share.